The Fedora Project is leading the creation of a new community around RPM. One in which the leaders can come from Fedora, from Red Hat, from Novell, from Mandriva, or from anywhere. Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project.

Newer upstream RPM is available

This page is to get pro and contra about the changes of RPM upstream development. If any of the below listings are inaccurate or if you have additional information, please update this list! But before updating/commenting this list, you really should have tried a current RPM version or exactly know its features.